Cued Articulation - Consonants and Vowels

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Some speech sound errors are seen in typical speech sound development. If your child is making one or more of the typical error patterns after the age at which they are typically no longer seen, then their speech sound development is delayed and they would benefit from support from home and nursery/school. So what are the keys? Why are some people more successful at becoming fluent cuers than others become? Why does Cueing come more easily for some than for others? And what does it mean to use CS successfully? And how does fluent cueing transfer into the development of good English language skills for deaf children? How do parents make that happen? So let’s take these questions one at a time. When I was learning to cue, I knew that my learning to cue would make the difference in whether or not every day of my child’s future would be a challenge. So I committed myself to cueing so well that it became as automatic as my knowing my name. I believed as clearly then as I do now, that cueing would change our lives. A manual cue in cued speech consists of two components: hand shape and hand position relative to the face. Hand shapes distinguish consonants and hand positions distinguish vowel. A hand shape and a hand position (a "cue") together with the accompanying mouth shape, makes up a CV unit - a basic syllable. [4] Parent workshops to support speech sound development are offered by the SLT department for families known to the service. Referral

To support sound production in therapy. I always sign the sounds I am targeting as I say them. We all know visual support is really useful for all children. I also find that it is an easy way to encourage the child to look at your face without directly asking them. They have a better chance of making the sound correctly if they are looking at how you do it. Has resources and information for parents, early years settings and schools to promote language and literacy development. We use a method of visual phonics called Cued Articulation. It was developed by a speech and language therapist called Jane Passey and works to use a hand gesture while you say a sound. Visualising phonics in this way helps the child understand where the sound is made, the shape of the lips as you say the sound, the type of articulation and if the sound is voiced of unvoiced, you will notice some actions use one finger or two fingers.One finger indicated that a sound is unvoiced and two means that it is voiced.Talk about or name unusual objects you might take for granted – the fire hydrant, the sewer cover, a parking meter. Talk about what they are used for.

This app is intended as a handy reminder of how each of the cues is made, and how it relates to the sound it represents and the letters that spell that sound. Using interactive consonant, vowel and diphthong tables, the app displays video cues of each sound, as well as an animated illustration of the mouth and throat while producing the sounds. It includes the colour coding that is central to the program, and provides examples of each sound within everyday words. The app is an extra resource to the suite of Cued Articulation materials produced by ACER Press. Rule #1: Be committed to cueing. If you are not committed, if you don’t believe in cueing, then you will lose the battle.Rule #4: Use idle time for practice – the waiting room of a doctor’s office, sitting on the bus or subway, waiting in your car at a red light. The editor of the Cued Speech Journal (currently sought but not discovered) reports that "Research indicating that Cued Speech does greatly improve the reception of spoken language by profoundly deaf children was reported in 1979 by Gaye Nicholls, and in 1982 by Nicholls and Ling." [12] Visual aids such as mouth movement pictures are a great help in practising speech as it allows children and clients to see extra visual cues that they can use to practice. Cuedspeech.org lists 64 different dialects to which CS has been adapted. [5] Each language takes on CS by looking through the catalog of the language's phonemes and distinguishing which phonemes appear similar when pronounced and thus need a hand sign to differentiate them. [ citation needed] Literacy [ edit ] Testing, Evaluation, and Certification Unit (TECUnit) The cued language national testing body of the United States